Quotes about Intellectual
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
— John Adams
Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.
— John Bevere
Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?
— Ronald Reagan
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence?
— Edith Wharton
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, in solid cash, the tribute which Philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
— Aldous Huxley
This marvelous anthology of books and letters called the Bible is all for the sake of astonishment! It's for divine transformation (theosis), not intellectual or "small-self" coziness.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.
— Samuel Johnson
Satan's first strategy is to keep religion intellectual.
— Rick Joyner
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.
— Dorothy Sayers
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
— St. Augustine
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
— Samuel Johnson